BAT accused yet again of unfair practices in Kenya
What you need to know:
The Guardian says that in Kenya, BAT has succeeded in delaying regulations to restrict the promotion and sale of cigarettes for 15 years.
In Uganda, the company is accused of targeting children in its attempts to gain new sales, a claim BAT strongly deny.
Health experts say smoking still kills more than 7 million people globally every year world-wide.
There are an estimated 77 million smokers in Africa.
The UK-based company British American Tobacco (BAT) has again been accused of using unjustified practices to dilute plans to limit the sales of its products in Kenya.
For the second time in two years, an exposé in the newspaper, the Guardian, says that BAT, along with other multinational tobacco firms “have threatened governments in at least eight countries in Africa demanding they axe or dilute the kind of protections that have saved millions of lives in the West.”
